President Donald Trump just turned NASA into a spy agency. On August 28, 2025, he signed an executive order reclassifying NASA — along with parts of NOAA and other scientific offices — as organizations whose primary function is “intelligence and national security.”
Mainstream outlets like Reuters buried it under headlines about “ending collective bargaining.” But that’s a smokescreen. The real story? The world’s most trusted space agency has been folded into the shadow world of intelligence.
NASA, the same agency that supposedly put men on the Moon and explored the stars, now legally shares the same status as the NSA and CIA. With a stroke of the pen, the door to secrecy slammed shut on the public.
The order’s official purpose is “protecting national security.” But when you dig deeper, it does something far more powerful — it shields NASA from public accountability. Agencies labeled as “intelligence” don’t have to disclose data, budgets, or internal operations. That means projects, satellites, and even contracts will now disappear behind the classified curtain.
Why would a space agency need that kind of secrecy? Maybe because the line between exploration and surveillance was never real. The same satellites that track hurricanes can track human movement. The same optics used to study Mars can zoom in on Earth. NASA’s global monitoring networks were always dual-use — one side for science, the other for control.
By including NOAA, the administration also pulled weather and climate satellites into the fold. These are the same systems that measure atmospheric aerosols, magnetic fields, and radio frequencies — the backbone of so-called “geoengineering” or weather manipulation programs.
Trump signed an EO that designated NASA, the National Weather Service, the Patent and Trademark Office, and a few others to “have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work”. pic.twitter.com/pNJdxg64Rt
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Once dismissed as “conspiracy theory”, those discussions suddenly look a lot less crazy when the agencies involved are officially labeled intelligence operations.
NASA insiders are furious. Union leaders say the move will crush morale and erase decades of scientific transparency. But others suspect this was the plan all along — to merge civilian science with the surveillance state. For decades, NASA has quietly partnered with the Pentagon and the National Reconnaissance Office. Most people never noticed that some “research satellites” were actually classified payloads.
Now it’s out in the open. The mask has dropped. NASA is no longer just the home of astronauts and dreamers. It’s an intelligence hub, a data engine feeding into the same digital panopticon that already watches the internet, the skies, and soon — every living thing on Earth.